Enhancement of TREK1 channel surface expression by protein-protein interaction with β-COP

  • Eunju Kim
  • , Eun Mi Hwang
  • , Oleg Yarishkin
  • , Jae Cheal Yoo
  • , Donggyu Kim
  • , Nammi Park
  • , Minhee Cho
  • , Young Sun Lee
  • , Choong Hyun Sun
  • , Gwan Su Yi
  • , Jiyun Yoo
  • , Dawon Kang
  • , Jaehee Han
  • , Seong Geun Hong
  • , Jae Yong Park*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

TREK1 belongs to a family of two-pore-domain K+ (K2P) channels and produce background currents that regulate cell excitability. In the present study, we identified a vesicle transport protein, β-COP, as an interacting partner by yeast two-hybrid screening of a human brain cDNA library with N-terminal region of TREK1 (TREK1-N) as bait. Several in vitro and in vivo binding assays confirmed the protein-protein interaction between TREK1 and β-COP. We also found that β-COP was associated with TREK1 in native condition at the PC3 cells. When RFP-β-COP was co-transfected with GFP-TREK1 into COS-7 cells, both proteins were found localized to the plasma membrane. In addition, the channel activity and surface expression of GFP-TREK1 increased dramatically by co-transfection with RFP-β-COP. Surface expression of the TREK1 channel was also clearly reduced with the addition of β-COP-specific shRNA. Collectively, these data suggest that β-COP plays a critical role in the forward transport of TREK1 channel to the plasma membrane. Crown

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)244-250
Number of pages7
JournalBiochemical and biophysical research communications
Volume395
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010 Apr 30
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • TREK1
  • Trafficking
  • Yeast two-hybrid screening
  • β-COP

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Biophysics
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Cell Biology

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